| 单词 | earth bath |
| 释义 | > as lemmasearth bath earth bath n. [after post-classical Latin balneum terrae (a1765 in the passage translated in quot. 1765) and its model Spanish vaño de tierra ( F. Solano de Luque Origen Morboso (1718) v. 174); compare earlier air bath n.] now historical a kind of medical treatment in which the patient is buried up to the shoulders in the ground. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment with mud, sand, etc. > [noun] pication1684 arenation1717 saburration1763 earth bath1765 mudbath1782 sand-bath1869 moor bath1878 fangotherapy1903 pelotherapy1933 1765 tr. G. van Swieten Comm. Aphorisms Boerhaave XII. 200 I have formerly heard..that through the whole kingdom of Granada, they have a method of curing a phthisis by an earth bath [L. per balneum terrae]. a1832 J. Mackintosh Mem. in R. J. Mackintosh Life (1835) I. i. 28 He endeavoured to make himself conspicuous, by..the earth bath, which consisted in burying himself in the ground up to the neck. 1907 Westm. Mag. 8 May 4/2 Graham advocated earth-baths. 2004 Northern Echo (Nexis) 25 Aug. 8 The physician told Dickinson to take an ‘earth bath’ in his native soil for four hours. < as lemmas |
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